This wouldn't happen in America (a quick gripe)
I live in a very nice house. Nice by Peace Corps standards: electricity, water inside the house, even a hot water heater for the shower. All of which I'm grateful for.

To fuel my stove and oven I have a gas tank. A blue round gas tank like you'd use on a gas grill. That's all fine and dandy, until the gas goes out, like it did tonight.

For the past week I've been promising my students that I'd bring them cookies when we went on a field trip this Saturday. Cookies which kinda need to be cooked. Being lazy today, I didn't start making the cookies until tonight, and seeing as I ironically didn't want to waste gas, I didn't preheat the oven. I should probably also add that I've been looking forward to cooking dinner all night...I don't know why: I just haven't done it in a while and was looking forward to having a hot healthy meal.

All of this leads us to 8pm. I go to turn the stove on and it won't go. I try it a couple other times (actually for an embarassingly long time) before declaring that the tank is empty. Shoot. It's night and I could call and harass my landlord to drive me to the gas station that closes at 9, but he's old. So now I sit, cookies all formed and sitting in the pan, having to be at school at 8am, only to loose face and be harassed by the kids. Grrr.

Oh and if were me, I'd have a back up, but that's just not the way things are done here. Double grr.